Dreaded "Error compiling movie - unkown error" message.

Hi,
I'm getting the above message on a project I worked on a week ago, with no problems, and went back to today.
It's on render, I don't know yet about export. On the timeline I've got clips, photos, titles, effects and an adjustment layer.
I removed everything one by one and still got the render error right down to the last clip which I had to add an effect to to make it need render.
I'm on a 8 core Mac with 40gb ram and gtx285 card (which I also tried turning off cuda), lot's of room on drives.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi Norma3n,
Please go to file>new>sequence and once the sequence settings window pops up go to settings tab and chnage the editing mode to custom and Preview file format to Quicktime and codec as animation or prores (if you are on MAC). On windows you can choose Microsoft AVI as preview file format and codec as Uncompressed UYVY. Copy and paste the old sequence into this new on and then try to render and check if you are getting the error message or not. Please also mention the operating system and the and the Version of the product that you have.
Regards,
Vinay

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